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shanen

(349 posts)
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 03:25 PM Dec 2017

Does the google blacklist Democrats (or democrats)?

What if the google blacklisted you?

Point the zeroeth: "With great power comes great responsibility", but the google is a "properly" programmed soulless corporation of the most inhuman sort. All the google anthropomorphically "wants" is all the money in the universe, and damn the responsibility.

Point the first: I strongly believe that I have been blacklisted by the google in the past. As a result, I was unable to use certain services for various periods of time. The longest "outage" lasted for years. (DAUPR. But why do you care?) There are certain google services that seem to work badly now. Just bugs or "negative personalization" for an "enemy of the state of the google"? Maybe I'm just too stupid (and paranoid?) to figure out how to use the google properly? (Or maybe you're next?)

Point the second: How can you or I tell the difference between being deliberately blacklisted and "bugs" in the "personalization" of your Google account? Maybe some of your email is just being incorrectly filtered as spam? Or maybe the google has "decided" you shouldn't be talking to certain people? Perhaps the google is trying to prevent the use of google services by criminals and you just got swept up in the net by a programming flaw? Or maybe the google machine "suspects" you of the ultimate crime, acting so as to reduce the google's profits?

Point the third: I like freedom too much. The thing I most dislike about the google is how hard they work to eliminate any non-google choices for the sake of profit maximization and cancerous growth. Cancer always kills its host. (Perhaps that's what happened (or is happening) to America?)

Point the fourth: How would you know? Perhaps by comparing notes with other people, but "true friends" of the google might not tell you the truth (the whole truth, and nothing but the truth) about how the google truly works. (Compare to Apple fanbois?)

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Does the google blacklist Democrats (or democrats)? (Original Post) shanen Dec 2017 OP
Post removed Post removed Dec 2017 #1
OK, then. MineralMan Dec 2017 #9
What Google account? PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #2
Maps. Docs. Android. Groups. shanen Dec 2017 #5
I know about Google maps and use that all the time. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #13
Since you provided no evidence, don't expect much of a response... brooklynite Dec 2017 #3
DAUPR shanen Dec 2017 #4
I note that you didn't provide details to anyone else...which likely explains the responses you got. brooklynite Dec 2017 #7
I'm a lifelong Democrat and I've never experienced any "blacklisting" by Google onenote Dec 2017 #6
My only problem with the google is it keeps following me around the net HAB911 Dec 2017 #8
eeek! It's caching! mia Dec 2017 #11
LOL, my most sincere apologies! HAB911 Dec 2017 #12
Then there is this HAB911 Dec 2017 #10
Never heard of Google blacklisting anyone. MicaelS Dec 2017 #14
No. That's silly. Bonx Dec 2017 #15

Response to shanen (Original post)

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,485 posts)
2. What Google account?
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 05:47 PM
Dec 2017

I use the Google to look up stuff, but I don't have any account with them. If you're referring to a gmail account, just get a different email with another provider.

 

shanen

(349 posts)
5. Maps. Docs. Android. Groups.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 03:31 AM
Dec 2017

The google has a large range of services. Maybe you live under a rock and didn't know, but it seems unlikely. Their search engine was just the "gateway drug".

Actually, there are a couple of places where it isn't even possible for me to avoid the google. For example, my long established email address, the one I regard as the closest thing I have to a permanent identity, was recently converted into a Gmail address in disguise. I actually protested at the time of the conversion, but the administrators of the old email system didn't offer any alternative.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,485 posts)
13. I know about Google maps and use that all the time.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:59 AM
Dec 2017

No android, no smart phone at all, just a basic phone.

And you can still get a different email if you want. It might be possible to forward all mail to the gmail account (how exactly is it a gmail account in disguise?) or simply send out a mass email letting everyone know about the knew email. It's still not very clear what exactly you are complaining about. Maybe you simply have malware on your computer that needs to be dealt with.

onenote

(46,065 posts)
6. I'm a lifelong Democrat and I've never experienced any "blacklisting" by Google
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 03:44 AM
Dec 2017

and I doubt that Google could blacklist every Democrat or even a substantial number of them without damaging their economic value.

I can't say why you experienced what you experienced, other than to doubt it reflects some widespread targeting of Democrats.

mia

(8,476 posts)
11. eeek! It's caching!
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:00 AM
Dec 2017

Ever since I clicked on your link, google is following me around too.
Now I want a Dell UltraSharp 32 8K Monitor.

HAB911

(10,351 posts)
10. Then there is this
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 09:47 AM
Dec 2017

This may be a small thing. But it's something we can fix.

Why is @google making Sandy Hook denial profitable? Look at hoax sites & you see thousands of brands using @adsense.

Please sign this petition to ask them to stop. https://buff.ly/2Adq6KS @slpng_giants


MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
14. Never heard of Google blacklisting anyone.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 11:17 AM
Dec 2017

You might have malware on your computer. I suggest you run a complete virus scan, followed by a malware scan.

There are plenty of free anti-virus products out there. Malwarebytes is a great free anti malware product.

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